Good for Kodak, bad for the rest of us. Everybody is wild for cheap point-and-shoot cameras these days, and so Kodak leaned on its very rich historical catalog of cameras long out of production.

They may be having serious survival issues, but they hit a home run with the Charmera, a $30 digital camera that Kodak unveiled on September 17, 2025, at 11:00 p.m. EST. According to USA Today, they all sold out within eight minutes.

what’s a charmera?

There are a lot of layers to this one. First, it’s a pun on the word chimera. The chimera was a Greek mythological beast, and it’s come to mean a creature that’s a hybrid of two or more creatures.

The Charmera is such a beast. It marries the look of the very not-digital 1987 Kodak Fling with a low-resolution digital image sensor, reminiscent of e

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